Tessa Mclean

Tessa is a Local Editor for SFGATE. Before joining the team in 2019, she specialized in food, drink and lifestyle content for numerous publications including Liquor.com, The Bold Italic, 7x7 and more. Contact her at tessa.mclean@sfgate.com.

The entrance to the Muni Metro at Powell Station in San Francisco.

San Franciscans ‘appalled’ at New York Times crossword error

December 8, 2022 at 11:57 a.m.

Bay Area devotees of the New York Times mini crossword puzzles were frustrated to get an answer wrong Wednesday — an answer they knew was technically incorrect.

The Berkeley Law entrance sign at UC Berkeley. (Photo: Getty Images)

UC Berkeley, Stanford join law schools abandoning US News rankings

November 23, 2022 at 7:55 a.m.

The UC Berkeley School of Law joined the law schools of Harvard University and Yale University last week in cutting ties with U.S. News rankings. The top universities will no...

The downtown San Francisco skyline at sunrise. (Photo: Alexander Spatari/Getty Images)

California businesses are leaving the state at double the rate of previous years

November 3, 2022 at 11:52 a.m.

The rate of California businesses leaving the state more than doubled in 2021, leading a new analysis to posit that the state may be "risking its economic future."

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